Another great week in the books. Expect to see a few more workouts with my two training buddies Tim Guerin and Nate Jenkins. Saturday was a good start of the workouts with Nate. I think I was about 15 secs behind him which isn't bad considering he just ran 29:32 10km on the roads last week and he is ways ahead of me in the race-fitness category. However, even if I get dropped every time by him, it is huge motivation for me to chase him as he is a huge aerobic machine. In addition I had a great long run this week. A few weeks ago my average heart rate was 155 on a 15 mile/6:52 pace, this week it was 150 for a 21mile/6:28 pace, tried to keep all other things constant. This was also the highest weekly mileage I've ever done. I definitely feel like I am making huge jumps in training by developing the aerobic capacity first (which I believe is there). With a few workouts, long and short, and working with the new training partners, this could be a great year ahead.